And, in “Holliston,” Adam Green wears his heart (and, sometimes, other people’s blood and guts) on his sleeve while trying to make ends meet in the sleepy town of Holliston, Mass.

Green, 37, is the creator, writer, director, executive producer and one of the stars of the hit horror sitcom “Holliston,” which airs on the FEARnet cable television network.

Green, who doesn’t charge for his autograph or posing for photographs (to the chagrin of some of his horror peers), first made a splash in horror with the worldwide slasher franchise “Hatchet.” Green and the majority of the “Holliston” cast will be together at this weekend’s “Rock And Shock” event at the DCU Center.

And his journey into the world of horror didn’t start with a knife-welding psychopath but a brown and wrinkly extraterrestrial that just wanted to phone (and, subsequently, go) home.

“When I was 8 years old, I saw ‘E.T.’ in the theater and that has still remained my favorite movie of all time. And that was, sort of, the moment that I realized what I wanted to do,” Green recalled. “I knew it wasn’t real and I knew E.T. wasn’t real. Yet, I could not control myself from crying and I was just so captivated by that feeling, that experience and learning how to do that.”

And Green’s older brother, Eric, would show him horror movies when his parents weren’t looking when they were growing up.

“I just loved it, everything from ‘Halloween’ to ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and ‘Friday the 13th.’ And, I thought the villains were so cool. I was never really scared by any of it. I always looked at them as sort of like anti-superheroes,” Green said. “And I was really interested in how they did the special effects because I knew it wasn’t real and the actors weren’t really getting killed. So, I would just study and see where they were hiding the prosthetic pieces and the tubes. From that point on, that was it for me.”

Green, who cites Jon Landis’ “An American Werewolf in London” as a huge influence, said he, too, wants to make horror movies entertaining and fun. And he’s not a fan of the dark, grisly turn that horror movies have taken in the past decade.

“With the (horror) genre, we have seen it go to this place where it became so mean-spirited and it felt like the storytellers just didn’t know how to entertain anymore. They just knew how to punish the audience,” Green said. “The whole butcher-porn thing, like to actually to pay money for a movie ticket to watch somebody strapped to a chair and screaming and in pain and agony for 90 minutes or watch women being like realistically raped, that’s not why I got into this and that’s not a fun time for anybody.”

A Holliston native who always namedrops his hometown in all of his films, Green said Holliston was a natural place to set his TV show being that it’s very autobiographical and, in many ways, a quasi-time-capsule of his post-college life.

Premiering on April 3, 2012, the first season of “Holliston” (which came out this week on Blu-ray and DVD) was deemed such a big hit that FEARnet cable television network green-lighted a second season the day after the second episode aired. A “Holliston” Christmas special will air sometime in December and the new season will start airing in the spring, Green said.

A traditional, multi-camera sitcom, complete with an audience laugh-track (but with plenty of gratuitous violence and demented humor), “Holliston” centers around the exploits of Adam and Joe (played by Green and Joe Lynch, respectively), two aspiring horror filmmakers working at a dead-end job at a local cable access station in a small Massachusetts town. As they struggle to make “Shin Pads,” a movie about an undead Mexican soccer team (and, boasting the tagline “When they score, you die”), the two friends wrestle with not living up to their post-college potential, pursuing their elusive dreams of breaking into the horror film business and making sense of the opposite sex.

“Holliston” also stars Twisted Sister’s frontman Dee Snider, who plays Adam and Joe’s boss, Lance Rockett, a cross-dressing, 54-year-old who is also the lead singer for a Van Halen tribute band and is still living the ’80s glam-metal lifestyle. Unfortunately, Snider is a last-minute “Rock And Shock” no-show due to a big, hush-hush announcement he was making today on “The Today Show.”